The Daily Bruin

Due to a staffing shortage, the Bruin Den will be closing at 3 p.m. today (Friday). Contact Lisa Miles (lmiles@georgefox.edu) with any questions.

Join us tomorrow (Saturday) to celebrate our 2019 athletics Hall of Fame class at an open-house tailgate in the Hadlock Student Center. Stop by between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. and catch up with the following people:

• Wendell Otto (’82) – Track & Field/Cross Country
• Michelle (Brown) Roberts (’94)- Track & Field/Cross Country
• Dan Wentzell (’07) – Baseball
• Kim Leith (’06) – Women’s Basketball
• Kristen (Shielee) Cromie (’09) – Women’s Basketball
• Verne Martin (’54) – Men’s Basketball/Baseball/Football 
• Patty Findley – Meritorious Service 
• The 2009 National-Champion Women’s Basketball Team

The 2019 Hall of Fame class will also be honored at halftime during the football game. 

Bring the whole family! It will be a fun-filled day with children’s activities, including face painting, bounce houses, corn hole and coloring, as well as tailgating food. 

Questions? Contact Elise Trask at etrask@georgefox.edu.

Join us at the Indigenous Peoples’ Day candlelight prayer vigil this Monday, Oct. 14, at 7 p.m. at the fire pit pavilion in Hess Creek Canyon.

This vigil will be a time of prayer for the indigenous community and for reconciliation to begin where difficult history, experiences and disparities separate native and non-native peoples.

Questions? Contact Tricia Hornback at phornback@georgefox.edu.

An art exhibition featuring Japanese artist Mika Aono is coming to the university’s Lindgren Gallery. It will be open for viewing from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays from Monday, Oct. 21, through Thursday, Dec. 5.

The show, titled “Over and Over,” will open with an artist’s talk at 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 21, at the Chehalem Cultural Center, followed by a reception from 7 to 8 p.m. in the gallery.

Aono’s images “explore the humanness of absurdity and futility through laborious processes, finding value in unfulfilled wishes,” according to the artist.

Questions? Contact Jennifer Salzman at jsalzman@georgefox.edu.

Would you like to learn more about intermittent fasting? Are you interested in having a healthier lifestyle? Two students are looking for participants for a four-week research study to assess energy and attention levels through intermittent fasting.

By participating in this study you could create healthy routines and gain nutritional benefits. This could kickstart a new habit in your life to improve overall physical health!

For more information, contact Riley Moresco at rmoresco16@georgefox.edu.

The next round of fall intramural sports starts on Monday, Oct. 21. The Hadlock Student Center will be hosting soccer, kickball, pickleball and badminton.

Grab some friends and put a team together or join as a free agent! Sign-ups are on IMLeagues.com and close on Saturday, Oct. 19, at midnight.

Questions? Contact intramurals coordinator Ryan Lacey at intramurals@georgefox.edu.

All are invited to a lecture concert featuring the choral works of Brahms this evening (Friday) at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. Learn about the fascinating and heartbreaking life of Johannes Brahms and listen to all four of George Fox University’s choirs perform.

Questions? Contact Danielle Warner at dwarner@georgefox.edu.

The Catholic Campus Fellowship invites all students, faculty, staff and their families to join a prayer hike tomorrow (Saturday). We will meet up on campus at 9 a.m. to carpool, then head out to walk the 3.6-mile trail at Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey. 

Please bring a rosary and sack lunch. RSVP to Genevieve Wolf at gwolf18@georgefox.edu.

Our third football game is this Saturday, Oct. 12! Kickoff is promptly at 1 p.m. Come decked out in George Fox gear to show your support and spirit!

The tailgate opens at noon with seven different vendors, including Dutch Bros, Cream Northwest, Miss Hannah’s Gourmet Popcorn and BobaBlastic.

Security reminder: Please have all cars removed from the Bauman parking lot by 10 p.m. tomorrow (Friday).

For more information, contact Missy Downs at mdowns@georgefox.edu.

All are invited to a special presentation, “Reflections on Dr. King and the Beloved Community,” on Thursday, Oct. 31, at 4:15 p.m. in Canyon Commons. This lecture on the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. will be given by Scott Finnie, a professor at Eastern Washington University.

Finnie has been a faculty member in EWU’s Africana Education Program and history department since 1992 and currently serves as director of Africana studies and as director of race and cultural studies. His presentation is part of the university’s presidential lecture series. You can read more about his visit here.

For more information, contact Missy Terry at 503-554-2101.

Do you feel a call to ministry, but are wondering what that might look like? Join us for a Call to Ministry Conference at Clackamas Park Friends Church (8120 S.E. Theissen in Milwaukie) for a time of reflection, inspiration and discernment.

The conference, sponsored by the university’s College of Christian Studies and the Northwest Yearly Meeting, takes place Friday and Saturday, Oct. 11-12, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. (Friday) and 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (Saturday). All meals are provided, and 14 discussion tables will suggest possible ministries and scholarships available for you to consider.

Register online here and contact Paul Anderson (panderso@georgefox.edu) with any questions you may have.

FoxTALE will be unavailable next Wednesday, Oct. 16, from 6 to 8 a.m. Pacific Time for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Questions? Contact servicedesk@georgefox.edu or call 503-554-2569.

The university is hosting a SOLO Wilderness First Aid (WFA) course on campus Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 2-3. This is an excellent course for individuals who enjoy the outdoors or work in a camp or wilderness setting.

The class will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. The cost is $100 for current George Fox students, $150 for employees, and $225 for community members. National Outdoor Leadership School courses through REI start at $245 per person.

Participants will receive two full days of hands-on instruction and gain confidence in their ability to provide aid to those in need. Sign up through IMLeagues.com and pay the course fee in the Hadlock Student Center.

Contact Keith Schneider at kschneid@georgefox.edu with questions.

All are invited to the Fall 2019 Faculty Lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 6 p.m. in Hoover 105. Our featured speaker will be Rhett Luedtke, a professor of theatre and recipient of the 2018-19 Faculty Achievement Award for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship. 

Join Rhett as he shares his vision for building bridges across religious, ethnic and racial divides through the power of theatre, in a lecture titled, “A Bridge Worth Building.”

Come early, between 5 and 6 p.m., and check out the work of our Richter student scholars at a symposium in the Hoover lobby. Students will present their research projects in a conversational poster format. Refreshments will be served.

Questions? Contact Laurie Fair at lfair@georgefox.edu.

The Catholic Campus Fellowship invites all students, faculty, staff and their families to join a prayer hike on Saturday, Oct. 12. We will meet up on campus at 9 a.m. to carpool, and then head out to walk the 3.6-mile trail at Our Lady of Guadalupe Trappist Abbey. 

Please bring a rosary and sack lunch. RSVP to Genevieve Wolf at gwolf18@georgefox.edu.

Thank you to those of you who are participating in the grocery bag project for the Bruin Community Pantry. What a blessing you all have been!

Currently, the food bank is in need of the following items:

• Salt and pepper
• Cereal, hot and cold
• Milk alternatives
• Hamburger
• Tuna helper meals 
• Cooking oil
• Body lotions

Questions? Contact Jere Witherspoon at jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu.

The Bruin Store is excited to announce a new event: The Closet Project! We are partnering with the Bruin Community Pantry for this initiative.

First, we are hosting a clothing drive. The Bruin Store is collecting gently used professional and semi-professional clothing from students and the surrounding community. Clothing can be dropped off at the front desk in the Bruin Store during business hours and will be collected through the end of the semester, Friday, Dec. 13.

In the spring, the clothing collected will be sold at a pop-up tent here on campus. Every piece will be sold for $1 and the proceeds will go to the Bruin Community Pantry. 

Contact Paige Jacobs at pjacobs@georgefox.edu with any questions, and follow us on Instagram @the_bruin_store.

Need a devoted friend and endless entertainment? Goldfish are available for adoption through the biology department. Stop by EHS 202 anytime between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. starting Friday, Oct. 11. There are bags to tote them home. Goldfish are perfect for dorm rooms and outdoor ponds. Give them a good home!

Questions? Contact Teresa Arnold (tarnold@georgefox.edu).

All are welcome to attend a lecture by Nicholas Buccola, titled “The Fire is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America.” The lecture will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 6:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Buccola is a professor of political science at Linfield College and the founding director of the Frederick Douglass Forum on Law, Rights, and Justice. He is also the author of The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of American Liberty.

Questions? Contact Mark Hall at mhall@georgefox.edu.

Please join us on Thursday, Oct. 24, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Canyon Commons for the first of many talks within the George Fox University global impact seminar series.

The first talk will be given by Bernard Amadei and is titled “Engineering for Peace and Diplomacy.” This talk will discuss the value proposition of using a systemic approach to healthy global development that centers on peace and social justice.   

Amadei comes to us from the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the founder of Engineers Without Borders (USA) and the former director of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities. 

All are welcome to attend these talks that focus on solutions to the complex issues plaguing our global society. We hope these conversations will inspire and equip us for lives of service and societal impact. 

Questions? Contact Adina McConaughey at amcconaughey@georgefox.edu.